If scrolling feels more exhausting than entertaining, you're not alone. I feel the same way, and a recent study backs up the sentiment: Social media is losing its fun factor.
So services like Incogni are using people who are looking to have their personal data removed, to harvest their personal data. Shocked, I tell you. Shocked.
I don’t trust any of these companies, but in this case I don’t think they are just using people’s data to infer the results of their study. They just did a survey:
Incogni’s researchers surveyed a representative sample of 1,000 adults to investigate people’s attitudes surrounding social media and online engagement more broadly, the extent to which they’re limiting or eliminating social media usage, their reasons for this, and what they experienced after doing so.
So services like Incogni are using people who are looking to have their personal data removed, to harvest their personal data. Shocked, I tell you. Shocked.
I don’t trust any of these companies, but in this case I don’t think they are just using people’s data to infer the results of their study. They just did a survey: